When I was a child I became a member of a cracking group of friends that disassembled and broke protections just for fun(we did not share or sell our cracks alt

When I was a child I became a member of a cracking group of friends that disassembled and broke protections just for fun(we did not share or sell our cracks although we published info about how to do it). The other day I met them again, now as an adults. It seems like one of the members of the old group took the bait and now is working for secret services or something shady. His life is miserable. You start selling vulnerabilities for easy money and you could end badly. Those entities have so much power and too few scruples.